Shattered Tears

Chapter 11: Danny Phantom

Sam furiously went through the papers she held over and over again, "where is it!" In her hands, she held all of the documents involving the Phantom Project. Most of it involved the procedure used on Danny. But she couldn't find the one part she was looking for.

She put the papers back into the folder and held it tightly in her hands "So, this is Danny's ectoenergy." She looked at the machine that stood taller than her and at least six feet wide. She grit her teeth, "those bastards." She put her hand on her head in thought. "Damn it!" She thrust her fist forward and punched the filing cabinet. The punch did more damage to her hand than it did to the filing cabinet. "We came all this way…"

"I want them back! I want my memories back! I want everything back! I want to remember all of this! All of those times that I smiled and laughed back then, I want to feel that! Please!"

She vividly remembered Danny's tears as he said those words. "We came all this way to get his memories back!" She threw the folder in her hands down to the floor, the folder opened as it fell and the papers went in all directions, slowly settling on the ground. "Damn it!" She stomped on the papers with a furious growl. She stopped in place when she heard the click of a gun loading.

"Step away from the machine with your hands in the air."

Sam looked left and right, there were men all around her. How did I not see them before? With her wounds as they were, she didn't want to make them any worse or get any more wounds. But…she couldn't just give up now! Should I fight? If I surrender now, I'll be put in jail probably! If I fight, I could end up being killed. I promised the others that I would make it back safely… "Where's your leader? I need to talk to him again."

"Put your hands in the air! I won't say it again! Do it or we'll shoot!"

Sam cringed and slowly started to raise her hands up. "How many of you were involved in the Phantom Project! I need to ask a few questions!"

None of the men answered.

"Where are you keeping his memories! In the documents, it only mentions Danny's ectoenergy being removed! Where the hell are his memories! What did you do with them!"

"Ma'am! Stay still and be quiet until our boss gets here! Any movements and we'll shoot! Understand!"

"Are you going to answer me or not! The only reason I'm here is to figure this out! Now answer me! Or at least get me someone who knows something about this stupid thing!" Sam was getting impatient. "Are you just going to-"

Everyone in the room looked up. Sam's eyes grew wide, "Danny! What the hell are you doing here!"

The men in the room immediately fired their weapons at Danny, each bullet passed harmlessly through him.

Danielle smirked while she held Danny's hand, "you're going to need some ghost equipment to hurt a ghost!" She flew over Sam and released Danny's hand. He dropped to the ground in front of Sam, in each hand he held a combat knife. Sam let her hands fall to her sides and quickly grabbed the two guns she stored on her belt.

"Why did you come here! I told you I would come alone!"

Danny skillfully swung his blades left and right, each of the bullets that was shot toward them bounced off his knives with a clang. Sam stared at Danny as he flawlessly protected the two of them from being shot. "If I hadn't come, you could've been killed! Did you think you could come back home with two bullet wounds and I would let it go!" Danny turned his head a bit to look at her in the eyes for a brief moment before returning his attention to the men once more, "you told me before that you loved me! So why the hell did you leave and not tell me! If you were killed… if you were killed then you would be leaving me alone!"

Danny turned from defense to offense. He quickly threw the knives in his hands toward two of the men and instantly pulled out two more that were hidden in his clothes. He threw those knives as well then grabbed another two. Very quickly, the men all dropped to the ground with a blade imbedded in their gut.

The firing no longer continued. Danny turned toward Sam, "I'm sorry that I left for five years! I'm really sorry! I can't imagine how painful that was for you! So please don't do the same thing I did! Don't leave me alone!"

Sam bit her lip, "you idiot! I wouldn't even think of leaving! I won't die in a place like this!" She wrapped her arms around him, "I'm sorry for worrying you. I won't do it again."

"It seems that my men failed to take care of the intruders."

Danny and Sam turned to look at the man who walked into the lab. Danielle hovered above their heads, "Cous', it's the guy from earlier."

Danny nodded, "yeah, the boss."

The man wearing a black suit walked forward but stopped a fair distance away from the three of them. With him, a group of men flooded into the room. A few doctors also walked in cautiously and went straight toward the ones with knives stuck in them.

Danny spoke toward the doctors, "don't worry, I avoided hitting their organs, they'll be fine."

"Hm. You're a very interesting person." The boss, Agent A, said. "you could've killed all of them effortlessly, but you went out of your way to make sure they live."

Danny narrowed his eyes, "shouldn't you be glad that I didn't kill your men?"

"I didn't say that I wasn't grateful." The man chuckled, "I just said that it's interesting."

"You remind me of someone else I know. And I really don't like it." The way this man spoke to them, it reminded Danny of Vlad.

Sweat slowly trickled down Danny's face. His heart was pumping quickly in his chest, he was sure that everyone else could hear his heart beat. He turned to look at the machine.

"Your body seems to be reacting to the ectoenergy." Agent A stated matter-of-factly.

"This is…" Danny reached his hand out and touched the side of the machine, "…my ectoenergy?" The machine had a large glass window along the side so the green energy could be seen.

"Danny," Sam spoke up, "your memories aren't here. I went through the files, the Guys in White only took your powers." Sam looked down at the floor, "I'm so sorry…"

Danny's eyes widened, his forehead creased with disappointment, "then…where are they?"

Agent A replied, "that organization that you held such high respect for is the one responsible for taking your memories. Did you think they would be able to raise a pawn like you if you had your memories?"

"What do you mean!" Danny growled, "Zanar didn't take my memories!" He thought back to his master, "He would've told me that! He would've told me if they had my memories there!"

"With no memories or feelings to hold you back, Zanar was able to raise you to be their perfect assassin puppet. All we needed was your powers, we had no use for you after that and we had an agreement with Zanar. They wanted to keep you for themselves having seen your potential."

Danny took a step forward, "then who was the one that killed my whole family! Was it you or Zanar!"

Agent A took a moment to respond, "both. Some of my men were there as well as one of Zanar's members."

"Then let me ask you this…" Danny stood up tall and with a loud voice he barked "WHY did you kill my family! WHY did you kidnap me! WHY did you take my powers from me! What the hell did you gain from doing this!"

Agent A glared at Danny, "The only reason we did this was to protect the world from your ghost powers! By nature, ghosts are violent and will attack the living! You were both human and ghost, your ghost half naturally wanted to take over the human half. Your ghost powers increased as time went on and if we hadn't done anything, you would have been taken over and would only cause destruction."

"You bastard!" Sam yelled, "Danny was the one that protected everyone in Amity Park from those ghosts! He didn't do anything bad!"

"You're not listening to me, Sam!" Agent A replied, "His ghost powers would keep increasing, destroy Danny completely and would still increase to the point that nobody would be able to stop him! He wouldn't be able to control himself!"

"But Danny never had any problems controlling his powers!"

"We had been monitoring his ectoplasmic signature for quite a while, it was rapidly getting out of hand. You may not have noticed, but it was happening very quickly. We had to act fast before it became too powerful. My men's only goal was to take Danny and leave the family alone, but they refused to give up their son and fought against us, so naturally we had to take care of them!"

Danny's fist were clenched, his knuckles turned white from the strain, he grit his teeth and trembled all over. "What kind of screwed up place are you running! You had no right to take my family away from me, you had no right to take my powers and you had no right to hand me over to Zanar like I'm some toy to be passed around! They're MY powers! I can do whatever I want with them! You aren't the ones to decide if I can control them or not! If my powers are increasing, then I'll just have to become stronger and fight against it! I don't need bastards like you making these decisions! I'll take my powers back! And then I'll go beat the crap out of Zanar and take my memories back too! I'll take all of them back!"

Agent A grit his teeth, "If you were to try and take your ectoenergy back, it would kill you! It's been increasing these past five years inside of this machine! Your body won't be able to handle it! It'll destroy you!"

"Again with making these decisions!" In the blink of an eye, Danny was across the room and slammed Agent A against the wall. Danny gripped the edges of his coat collar, keeping his face only inches away from Agent A's face. The men surrounding them all turned and aimed their guns at Danny. "You are never to come after my friends, you understand! If you try to hurt them any more than you already have, I swear I will send you to the hospital in a coma!"

"It seems that you haven't lost your violent side, have you?"

"When it comes to my friends, I won't hold back!" Danny hissed. "I'll never forgive you, you bastard! If you didn't exist, my family would still be alive!" Reluctantly, in his mind, Danny was thinking of all the possible ways to kill this man. There were several parts of the body that he could stab with a knife that would be painful as well as lethal. He wanted to hear this man scream and beg for his life! Danny closed his eyes and turned his head away. He hated thinking like this! I gave up that life! I don't want to kill anyone else! Revenge will solve nothing!

"Now that you're no longer part of Zanar, we can't allow you to live. There's a reason that ex-assassin's aren't allowed to live! They're too violent and have no one to limit them! Even now, I can see it in your eyes, you want to kill me! How long do you think you can put up the good-guy act?"

"Shut UP!" Danny brought one of his fists back and drove a punch into the man's gut. Agent A grunted and coughed loudly, leaning forward from the pain in his stomach. "I gave up being an assassin because I realized that I had friends that cared about me! Your organization works with a group of killers! All you've done is ruin things for me! So no duh I want to kill you! Anyone in my position would want to kill you! The difference is that I have been trained to kill!" Danny released his hold on Agent A and walked back to stand by Sam and Danielle.

Danny reached into the sleeve of his shirt and pulled out a long dagger.

"I told you Phantom! If you try and take back your ectoenergy, you'll be killed!"

"You wanna bet!" Danny shouted. "It's my own powers! I can control them! And I will!" He turned to Danielle and Sam, whispering under his breath, "close your eyes and breathe into your clothes."

Tear gas exploded from all over the room. Everyone's eyes began to burn painfully and they choked and gagged while they breathed. Danny took a step toward the large machine and placed his hand on it "I don't know how well this will work…" he brought his hand with the dagger back, "…but here it goes!" He thrust the knife forward into the glass on the machine, his hand recoiled back from the collision, but he managed to create a small opening in the machine.

Like a magnet being pulled to a refrigerator, the ectoenergy immediately went toward Danny. The green liquid wormed its way out of the opening to the machine and shot straight toward him, never touching the ground. At first, the liquid would stick to his body, but before long, his skin began to absorb the energy like a sponge.

His heart began to race even more. He gasped for breath. The feeling in his body was strange, but he seemed to be perfectly fine while the energy continued to be drawn toward him.

Sam and Danielle walked over to Danny, they seemed both interested and concerned about what was happening. Things seemed to be going fine. "Danny," Sam softly spoke, "how're you doing?"

With a strained voice, Danny replied "its…getting…more difficult…" He looked at the machine, seeing that only half of the green liquid was gone so far. He knew that this wouldn't be easy. He could only hope that his body could handle the ectoenergy. Before long, Danny's legs lost their strength and he dropped to his hands and knees, inhaling and exhaling like he was suffocating.

Sam dropped to her knees next to Danny, "hang in there!"

Danielle stayed standing and turned to make sure that nobody was going to try and attack them. The tear gas had already vanished, but the effects on the men who had breathed it in and gotten it in their eyes remained in pain. "Stay strong Cous'!" She encouraged him.

He was quickly reaching his limit, there was only so much that his body could handle. Danny heaved and puked up some blood, the veins in his body were bulging visibly under his skin. He closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around his stomach. "I can handle my powers!" Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, sweat soaked his shirt and his body began to glow a bright green colour. I can do this! The strain on his body was becoming too much. A drop of blood trickled down from his eye.

"Danny!" Sam placed her hand on his back.

"Don't worry," he whispered with a pained whine, "I'll be fine…" The way he spoke wasn't very reassuring.

Sam looked at the machine, the green ectoplasm continued to pour out of it, "how much more is there!"

Danny's head rolled back and he released an ear-splitting cry of agony. Danny rolled to his back and used his arms and legs to try and crawl away from the machine. The ectoenergy still followed him even as he tried to get away.

Sam wrapped her arms around him and held him tightly in place, "it's okay, Danny! You can do this! Hang in there!"

The veins in his body were visibly glowing green through his skin, his eyes paled and shined. Blood continued to run from his eyes and nose due to the strain on his body.

It wasn't nearly this bad this first time he got his powers. Sam thought to herself. But like Agent A said, his powers have been increasing. Please, Danny, be alright!

Danny trembled in place, moaning and crying out from the pain.

The last of the ectoenergy seeped out from the machine and was absorbed into Danny's skin. He collapsed on the floor, motionless.

Agent A walked toward them, Danielle dropped to a defensive stance and glared at the man, ready to attack him if she needed to.

"Danny?" Sam shook him a bit, "hey! Danny, answer me!"

"I warned you, it would be too much." Agent A commented.

"Shut up!" Sam snarled, "he's alive!" She pressed her ear to his chest, hearing his heartbeat. "He'll be fine!"

Danny breathed shakily, "I told you, you bastard…" Danny looked toward Agent A, "I can handle my own powers…"

Agent A grit his teeth and pulled out his gun, "and now what! Now you're a threat to us, your friends, and your entire city!"

"The only one that's dangerous here…is you!" Danny rolled to his stomach, spitting out a chunk of blood caught in his throat.

"Danny, don't move so much!"

Danielle looked at her cousin, "I'll take care of him, you should rest!"

"I'm fine. In fact, I feel great." Danny grinned. His eyes were bloodshot and unfocused, but he was telling the truth, despite the over bloating pain in his body, he felt physically more whole then he could ever remember.

Sam helped Danny stand up, he mostly leaned on her for support. She bit her lip from the pain in her side and her leg.

Danny let go of Sam and stood on his own. He didn't understand why, his brain had no idea what was going on, but his body seemed to feel comfortable with these powers. A ring of light appeared around his waist.

Sam and Danielle stared wide eyed at Danny. How is he able to do this after only having them for less than a minute! Can he already control them? No, that's impossible! It took Danny months to be able to use his powers accurately! Sam's mouth gaped with absolute shock.

The ring split into two, one of the rings went straight up and the other went down. As the rings moved, his body transformed from Danny to Phantom. The familiar black and white outfit, the white hair and green eyes appeared before them.

Before Sam realized it, a tear ran down her face. She never thought she would see Danny like this again! It was like old times!

Danny Phantom launched himself forward, crashing into Agent A with full force, the two of them went flying across the room. Danny pulled his gloved hand back with green energy and punched Agent A. Danny grabbed onto the man's black coat and jumped into the air, flying several feet above the ground. He held him there for a moment, "I would've kicked your ass earlier but I wanted to wait until I got my powers back! That way, you'll be able to remember that it was Danny Phantom that defeated you! The one that you tried to destroy!"

Danny swung his foot around and kicked Agent A downward so that he fell faster and crashed into the floor.

All of the men that were able to see and breathe correctly began to shoot at Danny to try and help their boss, but all of the bullets had no effect. Danny flew down and stood next to the place that Agent A lay. "I'll tell you this once more! Don't you dare lay a hand on me or my friends ever again!" He pressed his foot down on the man's chest, pinning him there, "or there will be hell to pay!" He brought his foot underneath Agent A and kicked him up into the air several feet before punching him once again. He skid to a stop after flying several feet.

He walked toward the boss, "don't ever forget it!" Danny brought his foot down and slammed it into the man's rib cage. Danny heard two of the man's ribs break, but those would heal over time. He had been tempted to break the man's ribs to the point that it pierced his lungs and killed him, but he held himself back.

Danny turned and walked, still shakily, toward Sam and Danielle. "Come on, let's get out of here. That guy won't be getting up for a while."

Sam grinned widely and swung her arms around him, hugging him tightly.

Danny chuckled and hugged her back. "Danielle," he looked over toward his cousin, "do you think you could get us out of here." Danny switched back into his human self, "I don't know if I would be able to fly us back…"

Danielle smiled, "sure thing!"

The men in the room stood and stared at the three of them, not firing their weapons a them anymore. Their boss had been defeated. They had lost.

Danielle grabbed both Danny and Sam and turned intangible, then proceeded to fly out of the lab and out of the building. "Hey hey! Look at that!" She descended to the ground just outside of the gate surrounding the building.

The van with "Fenton" on the side of it was parked outside of the gate, Valerie and Tucker stood outside of the car and waited for them. "Looks like we were a bit late." Tucker sighed.

Valerie growled, "you guys just had to leave home without us! Jeez!" She laughed, "but it looks like you guys got out alive."

"Hey Danny, did you manage to…" Tucker started but trailed off when Danny shook his head.

"No, it turns out Vlad was wrong. The Guys in White didn't have my memories, but they did have my ghost powers!" Danny smiled, "so I was able to get one part of me back!"

"Yeah, but Zanar is the one that has your memories." Sam spoke up, "that'll be a bit harder to get!"

Danny nodded, "for now, let's not worry about that. Let's head home. I think we could all use some rest." Danny kept himself from saying it, but he really wanted to rest right that moment. They all got into the van, and within a few minutes Danny had fallen asleep.

He had never wanted to go to Zanar ever again. But in order to get his memories back, he would have to.

Sam reached over and put her hand over Danny's hand. "We made it." She smiled, "we'll get your memories back too! No matter what!"

A/N: Alright you guys! I'll be gone for two weeks starting Sunday! So I tried to make this chapter somewhat exciting :D hope you enjoyed it! Thank you all for your lovely reviews!